A Nightmare on Elm Street

The year is 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is coming out in theaters. What better time to capitalize on Freddy Krueger, than by releasing novelizations of A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and Dream Warriors. The first two movies never had novelizations at the time, so it was the perfect chance to put them in book form. As for Dream Warriors, the author XXX, based his book on an early screenplay of the movie, so the story comes out much

Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a character of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a burnt serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities. Krueger was created by

Homecoming is filled with tradition, however, this year several new activities were added to make the week more exciting than ever. To make the week a success required meticulous planning and the experience of several veterans. The theme, “Nightmare on Elm Street”, provided for the most anticipated addition, a haunted house after the football game. In mid-September, the senior class voted to select 7 ladies for the 2016 Queen’s Court. Seniors Janet Burkhardt and Courtney Baumann both had sisters on

In my opinion, the best movie ever made is Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984). The movie is about a group of teenagers being haunted in their dreams by Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund), a man with knives for hands. The teenagers try to figure out why they are being chosen by Freddy and killed in their sleep. Freddy goes after the teenagers because their parents are the people who burned him alive after he killed young children. The only way that the protagonist of the story Nancy (Heather Langenkamp)

Kaylin Brooks English 1010 October 6, 2017 Nightmare On Elm Street Remake VS. Original Me being a total horror movie fanatic and with the remake craze taking the horror genre by storm, we all compare the remake to the original while we’re watching it. One of the most classic horror films of all time, Nightmare on Elm Street, was originally made in 1984 and later got remade in 2010 after a slew of sequels. When Nightmare on Elm Street got a remake, everyone at that time had split decisions about

Carmilla is the story of a lesbian vampire who has become captivated with a young girl. She first meets Laura when she was 6. Carmilla puts Laura in a trance-like state that gave her the sensation that she was dreaming the meeting of Carmilla. A Nightmare on Elm Street is a story about a small group of teenagers being haunted by an apparition, named Freddie Krueger, which uses dreams as gateways into the real world. Freddie uses fear as a way of putting his victims into a trance that prevents them from escaping

THE RHETORIC OF SOCIAL HORROR IN THE Nightmare on Elm Street SERIES The Nightmare on Elm Street movie series has enjoyed six successful theatrical releases since 1984, and a seventh installment was released in time for Halloween in 1994. It and other successful horror movie series, such as Friday the 13th and Halloween, are frequently analyzed from Freudian psychological perspectives and characterized as allegories of the psychological dynamic underlying the return of the repressed. Although the

Feminism In Horror: How A Nightmare on Elm Street reflects the Sexual Revolution Horror has long been about tales of heroic men fighting monsters (whether it be human or inhuman) and saving damsels in distress. Women were mostly used as eye candy, victims of violence or only to further the plight of the leading man. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that women in horror movies started to have more power in horror movies. This was majorly due to the rise of feminism, the female protagonists were fighting

both hold different characteristic traits, and one character dies early in the film, Hitchcock also has a male character save the final girl against the villain rather than having her face him alone. This differentiates against the film A Nightmare on Elm Street because Nancy finds her inner demons and faces Freddy Krueger alone in her dreams. She not only grows the strength to put her fears aside but she kills him with the satisfaction that he finally means nothing to her and that he is worthless

In every horror film, there is always a serial killer or supernatural being terrorizing an innocent group of individuals. Films such as John Carpenter’s Halloween and Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street involve supernaturally-based serial killers who commit murders in the name of revenge. The gory nature and explicit violence lead people to wonder why these monsters are created. Deep in the typical human subconscious, there are fears and impulses that can only be released through these films.